Lawmakers in Albany have been flooded with proposals for how to spend its share of federal recovery money.
Former prosecutor Daniel L. Bibb will not be disciplined for deliberately losing a case against two men whose murder convictions were overturned.
Manhattan borough president Scott M. Stringer and others are considering a run against Kirsten E. Gillibrand next year, underscoring her perceived vulnerability.
The New York State Assembly took pivotal steps to repeal much of what remains of the ’70s-era drug laws.
Daniel J. Castleman said that he would not run for district attorney — though, as any good politician, he left the door slightly open.
A hushed courtroom hears a defendant on the stand in a trial of what prosecutors say was a killing resulting from a custody battle.
A woman has claimed that she was raped by at least one of two police officers who escorted her to her apartment while she was intoxicated.
A Connecticut woman mauled by a chimpanzee lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids and may be blind and suffering brain damage, the Cleveland Clinic said as it revealed the woman’s specific injuries.
Mayor Bloomberg and his health commissioner offered a barrage of encouraging statistics, with an emphasis on preventing chronic disease.
Three years after an unlikely quest for the United States Senate established Ned Lamont as a national Democratic figure, he said he is weighing a gubernatorial campaign.
An apartment at the Apthorp is a lone outpost of the kind of bohemian family life that renters could once have there.
The Mets’ new stadium corrects many of the worst faults of Shea Stadium, the team’s old park, which is in ruins a few hundreds yards away
The Nets’ owner, Bruce Ratner, is determined to give Brooklyn a pro basketball team — whether the borough wants one or not.
The owner of the memorabilia said he would stop the auction if the Indian government agreed to create a traveling exhibit on Gandhi's legacy or increased health-care spending for the poor.
From The Local, Fort Greene-Clinton Hill: Delia Hunley-Adossa, a prominent Atlantic Yards supporter, plans to run against Councilwoman Letitia James, a project opponent.
An advocacy group dismissed as far-fetched the estimate that 30 percent fewer people were living on New York streets.
The Museum of Comedy, in Queens, is inside the offices of A. Ottavino Corporation, near a cemetery. Insert your own joke here.
Teenagers compete in an annual poetry slam that weaves confessional performance art and rap.
A map of the region including readers’ photographs and snowfall totals.
A look at some of the more prominent cases in the career of Robert M. Morgenthau as a federal and city prosecutor.
Governors and senators who are up for re-election may be in trouble but could benefit from a what’s-the-alternative attitude.
The quick-change room in the Minskoff Theater that the audience can’t see, where hyenas become rhinos and formality disappears.
I. Ross Dickman, the meteorologist-in-charge of the National Weather Service team serving New York City, is answering questions.
The New York State Assembly is set to pass legislation to repeal much of what remains of the '70s-era drug laws.
The costumes aren't the only thing shifting in the quick-change room at the Minskoff Theater.
A photographer for The Times living in Russia offers his impressions of New York City.
The costs and complications of owning horses in the current economy are placing the animals at risk.
Hannah Emily Upp went for a jog along Riverside Drive and vanished for nearly three weeks.
In his weekly podcast, Sam Roberts finds that everyone will miss Edward I. Koch when he's gone.
An inside look at stories affecting New Yorkers. With Sam Roberts, Saturdays at 10 p.m. and Sundays at 10 a.m. on NY1 News. Guests this weekend include Linda Fairstein, Herb Sturz; The Times's Andy Newman.
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